Transfer-picture.



UNITED STATES PATENT orrion.

GEORGE E. MEYERCORI), or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

TRANSFER-morons.

No Drawing.

The printing of decalcomania transfers must be on a fiat surface in order to obtain sharpness of'print andpurity of drawing or design, and so it is impossible to print or lay down one color of suflicient thickness to obtain relief and then print another color.-

. Consequently,

as it is impossible to emboss a decalcomanla transfer, it has heretofore been impossible accurately to reproduce oil paintings so as to bring out the surface contour variations and the reproducer has had to be satisfied with a flat unrelieved reproduction wholly lacking the light and shade effect obtained by the relief in the original oil painting.

I have discovered that a. faithful reproduction of an oil painting may be obtained by making a flat lithographic decalcomania print in the usual way and then building up the back side thereof so as to produce a contour similar to the surface contour of the original. In other words I make a print such that if it is placed with its front face against the flat back of the painting, the

irregularities in the two will be disposed symmetrically with respect to the plane of contact raised point, line or area on the front side of the painting a corresponding raised portion on the back side of the print. When such a'print is transferred,:its irregular back surface being brought'against a flat surface and pressure applied against the front side, the paint or color film as a whole is pressed back between the raised portion on the back side,givin the front into relief. When the transfer is made in. the usual way, by wetting the paper Specification of Letters Patent.

have invented a certain new and usebetween them; there being for every a fiat back surface and throwing- Patented Jul 21, 1914.

Application filed April 12, 1912. Serial No. 690,380.

and releasing the .paint or color film therefrom, the damp flat primary paint or colorfilm stretches readily to accommodate itself to the irregular configuration which it must take to bring out the relief or high light colors.

In manufacturing the decalcomania transfers, I first-make a flat print in the usual way, face down, by-v means of the usual se-' ries of lithographic color plates of stone, zinc, aluminum or rubber, each plate of the series printing those areas which all have one singlecolor. I then take the plate or plates which print areas which in the original oil painting are in relief, for example the plate with which the brush marks have been printed, and make a. series of successive printings on the back of the fiat print until the desired relief has been obtained through successive layers of coloring material superposed upon each other. Q After all of the reverse relief which can be made with one color has been obtained, I print with the other plates which have been used in making the fiat picture or film and print with them until the desired configuration has been given to the rear face of the picture. It

be used for printing the relief on the back of the picture since the coloring of the picture is completed in making the original film and is not changed by the subsequent printing operations. that the transfer print is duction of the original as to drawing and, when it is transferred, the relief and the It will thus be seen a faithful repro-' Wlll be seen that any desired material may brush marks are obtained without depreci'ation in quality or appearance.

I claim:

1. A decalcomania transfer for imitating an oil painting comprising a print having a flat face on the side; which is to be exposed after the transfer and on the other side a face in relief.

2. A decalcomania transfer for imitating an oil painting comprisin a print having-a flat face on the side which is tobe exposed after the transfer and having on its oppositeface high spots formed by successive printings upon the completed flat print.

3. The method of forming a relief decalcomania transfer in imitation of an oil In testimony whereof, I sign this specifipainting, which consists in making the usual cation in the presence of two Witnesses.

areas to be rinsed.

flat rint end then forming the relief by GEORGE R. MEYERCORD. buil ing up high spots on the back face Witnesses: 5 of the print by successive ,printings of the F. D. AYERS,

JOSEPH CROMPTON, Jr. 

